Chances at Cornell? Match?

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<p>Hello everyone,</p>

<p>First of all I would like to thank you in advance for coming to my thread and taking time to read and provide advice. This is beyond helpful and I am very grateful for this community.</p>

<p>In short, I am a rising high school senior, beginning to look into colleges. I am interested in majoring in most definitely sciences. Most likely biology, chemistry, biomedical engineering, neuroscience, psychology, or the like. As of now, like many other young inexperienced people, I see medical school in my future, so I would like to keep that in mind during my college search. However, it is also very important for me to go to an university with a wide variety of colleges, just in case I discover my passion for another subject. However, I am focusing on sciences because I am almost 100% sure that I will NOT major in literature, history, agriculture, etc etc.</p>

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<p>My Stats:</p>

<p>GPA Weighted: 3.94 (around this, calculation method may be off)
GPA Unweighted: not sure, will update later</p>

<p>SAT I (Super Score)- 2020
780 Math
640 Reading
600 Writing
8 Essay</p>

<p>ACT- 33
32 Writing
33 Math
33 Reading
34 Science
7 Essay</p>

<p>SAT II-
740 Math 2
740 Biology E
750 Chinese</p>

<p>Course Schedule-</p>

<p>Middle School
Honors Algebra I
Honors Geometry
Honors Spanish I</p>

<p>Freshman
Honors Algebra II
Honors Biology
Honors Language Arts
Honors Spanish II
American Gov/Health
Band</p>

<p>Sophomore
Honors Pre-Calculus
Honors Chemistry
Honors Language Arts
Honors Spanish III
AP World History (5)
Band</p>

<p>Junior
AP Calculus AB (first semester had a 79 unweighted and 86 weighted, worried about this)
AP Biology
AP Lang
On-level Physics
On-level US History
Band</p>

<p>Senior
AP Stat
AP Chemistry
AP Lit
AP Micro/Macro
PE/Internship
Band</p>

<p>ECs-</p>

<p>Club (# of years in by graduation)</p>

<p>Student Council Representative (4)
Beta Club (4)
Marching Band (received varsity letter) (4)
Tutors in Action (2)
Winterguard (1)
Science Olympiad (1)
Pep Band (1)
Medical Society (1)</p>

<p>-regular volunteer at local library
-peer education at a local AIDs center
-part time job as of summer 2011</p>

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<ol>
<li>Which other colleges would be matches for my stats?</li>
<li>Reaches?</li>
<li>Advice on early decision if it increased my chances?</li>
<li>Is financial aid generous for low income families?</li>
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<p>Thank you so so so much once again for your help and feel free to ask for clarification on anything!</p>

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<p>As target schools I recommend Swarthmore, Hamilton, Brandeis, Tufts, Emory, Williams, Middlebury, RPI, and GW! But I think The Ivy League is even in your reach (Cornell, Dartmouth, maybe Brown and UPenn). Harvard, Yale, and Princeton however would probably be reaches!</p>

<p>I strongly recommend applying ED if you are sure you want to go to that school because at a lot of these schools the acceptances rates ED are almost double RD! At Cornell of the 3,500+ applicants who applied, 1,100+ were accepted!</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>The College of Human Ecology at Cornell has a “Human Development” major that can be used for premed or graduate admission into psych programs, seems like a fit for your interests.</p>

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<p>Thank for your help! Right now I’m at a point where I’m looking for my dream school where I would apply ED. Looking at Cornell, Duke, JHU, WashU, Brown, Dartmouth, etc.</p>